As used in the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act:
A. "convention center fee" means the fee imposed by a local government entity pursuant to the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities;
B. "county" means a county within which a qualified municipality is located;
C. "local governmental entity" means a qualified municipality or a county authorized by the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act to impose convention center fees;
D. "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration;
E. "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality that has a population of more than fifty thousand but less than seventy thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census and that is located in a class A county;
F. "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room;
G. "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and
H. "vendor" means a person or his agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration.
History: Laws 2003, ch. 374, ยง 2.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 5 - Municipalities and Counties
Article 14 - Civic and Convention Center Funding
Section 5-14-3 - Authorized local governmental entities.
Section 5-14-4 - Imposition of convention center fee; use of proceeds.
Section 5-14-6 - Collection of convention center fee.
Section 5-14-7 - Audit of vendors.
Section 5-14-8 - Financial reporting.
Section 5-14-10 - Collection of delinquencies.
Section 5-14-11 - Lien for convention center fee; payment; certificate of lien.
Section 5-14-12 - Ordinance requirements.
Section 5-14-13 - Revenue bonds.